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With feeling? OK Bought $100 more of time for the cell phone which should be plenty to hold me until the expiration date of August 2015. I have a camera/phone in the car for emergencies only, no carrier assigned and it’s supposed to be able to call 911. Holds a charge for about 2 weeks.

I’ve got an Acer Aspire X1200 I bought in 2008 that is running Vista Home Premium. About a week ago I noticed that when I finished work for the day and left it for awhile and came back that it would be off. When I would try to turn it back on with the power button it was completely unresponsive. The only way I could get it to come back on would be to unplug it and plug it back in. It works fine after that but has started doing this every day if I leave it alone for a short while. I looked in Power Options on the control panel and it was set to go to sleep at 4 hours which is way longer than I have been leaving it alone in the evening and even on the occasions I did leave it on all night and it went to sleep, when I pressed the power button it would wake up. I am wondering if my power supply unit may be going out or if someone has any other ideas as to what is going on?

Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2 update. I’ve been using the device for 3 days now. Have to say the tablet exceeds my expectations. Response is robust as long as you’re not expecting to play Crisis or edit video on the device. Internet video takes a little longer to load and display than on the desktop or laptop, but we’re talking 1 or 2 seconds – not a bother. It’s truly a computer on a tablet – the best of both worlds. Use the keyboard and it’s a mini laptop via the desktop plus the touchscreen is always available for navigating, zooming and pulling up the charms. Without the keyboard, the metro interface proves its value as a touch / mobile interface – genius – thank you Win 8.1 for having both. The stylus is a joy to use for entering text and illustration on whatever is displayed on the screen. Weight is a little over 1 lb and easy to hold for an extended period of time (I purchased a case with a wrist strap which vastly improves holding the device for presentations). While the display is not full 1080p, the little over 720p resolution is entirely sufficient with no visible pixilation – normal display at 1080p would have writing too small to read without zooming. Getting a full 7 hours of battery life without having to turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.

Out of the box, it took approximately 6 hours to update (BIOS, drivers and OS update to Win 8.1) and customize the metro tiles and the desktop to my liking. The most difficult thing of the whole process was creating a ‘dust free’ environment to apply a screen protector. After that though, no browsing the App store to find ‘an App for that’ and having to purchase additional software – it’s good to go and seamlessly accesses files, media and printer on the LAN. DVD movies stored on the multi-media desktop play smoothly at full frame rates. With a Win8.1 tablet – the phrase ‘there’s an App for that’ is meaningless.